buckwheat
/ˈbʌkʍiːt/
- n.
- 荞麦，荞麦片，荞麦粉
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
buckwheat
词源说明
Ultimately from Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”) (so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat), probably via Middle Dutch boecweit, boecweite. Compare German Buchweizen. Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass.
释义
名词noun
- 1An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
- 2(cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
- 3Western USAny of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
- 4slangA slow and painful murder by the Mafia